She pulled out a large photographic blowup of a brain-tissue sample.

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Out of 104 IRISL-linked cargo ships surveyed, 62 ships, or 60%, of the total sample, are currently in or near Iranian ports.

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They partnered with Modern Survey, which sends out a survey to a random sample of full-time, adult US workers to learn how they feel about their relationship with their managers.

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Check this out: 1, 000 fold magnification of sub-cellular details of a sample and the sample can be as large as 200 gigabytes.

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Even though people who own gaming consoles are not representative of the general population (and many are not even of voting age), David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, geeks out over the possibility of using new weighting and de-biasing methods to extract more meaningful insights from his sample.

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The most likely alternatives, butter and pig fat, were ruled out using a technique called isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, which measures the molecular weights of the chemicals in a sample.

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So he put together his own sample edition, with roughed-out maps, margin notes, an index and a list of appendixes, and sent it out again.

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